Cork-puller.



A. 4PINSEL.

CORK PULLER. APPLIOATION FILED 001:1, 1912.

1,061,904. Patented MaylS, 1913.

Y Br, S Ano/mers p To all whom t may concern:

ANDREW .'lIIil'Slll'i,l 0F ELIZABETB,.NEW JERSEY.

coax-rumenb Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 13, 1913.

Application led Otober 1.1, 1912. Serial N oi 723,297.

Be it known that I, ANDREW FrNsEL, a. citizen of the United States, and a resident of Elizabeth, in the county of Union: and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Cork-Puller, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relatesto cork pullers and has particular reference to a convenient tool for extracting corks of any size or construction in a manner which will. insure positive delivery of the corks intact so that they may be re-used, if desired. l

A further object of the invention is to provide a tool of the character indicated which may be used for removing crimped caps from bottles. The foregoing and other objects of the invention will hereinafter be more fully described and claimed and illustrated in the drawings accompanying this specication in which like characters of reference indicate. corresponding parts in all the views, and in Which Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improvementl shown in position for pulling a comparatively large cork; Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the tool alone; Fig. 3 is a horizontal section substantially.` on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1, the clamp appearing in plan; Fig. 4 is a view of the tool shown in use as a means for removing a crimped cap; and Fig. 5 is a side elevation, partly in section, showing thetool in the act of removing a small cork. l

Referring particularly to the drawings, I show the device in its preferred embodiment as comprising a bifurcatedgripping member 10V including a pair of lingers 11rconnected by a loop or bow 12. The gripping member 10 -isiinade Ypreferably of steel or some other suitable comparatively light yet strong springl material. The fingers 11, therefore, Iwill be not only sufficiently thin, adapting them to be projected into the neck of the bottle so as to embrace the cork 13, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 5, but will at the same time be sufficiently strong and stiff tov permit pressure to be applied to them on opposite sides for the purpose of first turning or twisting the cork within the bottle so as to l loosen- 'or start it on its outward movement, and secondly, to positively withdraw' it from such-bottle. As indicated at 11, the fingers adjacent their ends may be notched or serrated" s^o as to increase vthe grip or" frietional' contact upon the cork. Such features, however, will not interfere with the insertion of' the grip-ping fingers intov embracing posit-ion. The action, above indicated willnot damage the cork forthe reason that the body of' the cork is not punctured or dam-aged in any way, leaving it in good condition for re-use, if desired', in the same or some other bottle.

-In connection with the gripper 10 above described, I employ asa means for applying pressure to the opposite sides of the lingers 11, especially when operating upon 'tight corks, a clamp comprising a sleeve 14 adapted to surround the fingers 11 between the loop and the ends ofthe lingers, and cop-4 erating with said sleeve is a screw 15 having any suitable form of hea-d 16 whereby it may be rotated to cause the inner end of the screw to bear upon one of the fingers 11 whereby the two fingers are caused to approach each-other within the sleeve 14. The fingers 11 have sulicient rigidity to enable then to stand sulicient pressure thus applied to the clamp to enable the fingers 11 to be rmly set upon a cork, as it is desirable when starting deep or tight corks, so that it will be unnecessary to apply pressure to the fingers in any other way, leaving the operator free t0 simply apply easy force of the fingers and thumb to the sleeve as it lies in position adjacent the end of thel bottle neck, or in contact with the end of the cork if it projects beyond the neck of the` bott-le. In other words, the sleeve and screw set as indicated in the drawings will constitute the entire device into a substantially rigid construction in its grip upon the cork, of any size, and by turning or twisting the sleeve around the axis of the cork, the cork will be loosened and freed for easy and safe withdrawal. As applied to small corks especially, the ordinary cork screw and other means ordinarily applied to corks will so distort or damage the corks that they are rendered useless, even though they be withdrawn by such ordinary means.-

The loop 12 maybe of any suitable form and constitutes a fulcrum member for the removal of a common crimped cap 17, the

tool being applied in such a way as to cause one of the parallel upper edges 14 of the sleeve .14 to engage beneath the crimped run application of the loop. With the device applied as indicated, the operator grasping the tool in one hand while holding the bottle in the other, will lift upon the fingers 11, thereby easily and reliably removing the cap from the bottle. The screw 15, for the purpose ofremoving crimped caps, may preferably be run out toward the outer position of adjustment so that the loop and sleeve will occupy the proper position in respect to the crimped cap. Y

The device above described may be madel of any suitable size and materials, and the exact form thereof may be varied from that indicated without departing from the spirit of theinvention. Y

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent/:

In a cork puller, the combination of a gripper comprising a pair of spaced fingers and a bow connecting the same, and a clamp coperating with said gripper, said clamp comprising a sleeve embracing said fingers and movable longitudinally thereof and having parallel upper edges for cooperation with said bow when the sleeve is adjacent ANDREW FIN SEL.

Witnesses:

W. H. RYAN, MAY HEPBURN. 

